AddressAbout Us
At Santos, our goal is to be a global leader in the energy evolution to low-carbon fuels that help the world decarbonise and continue to provide the reliable, affordable energy the world needs for modern life and human progress.
Santos is an important Australian domestic gas supplier and LNG supplier in Asia. We are committed to supplying critical fuels such as oil and gas, and abating emissions through carbon capture and storage, energy efficiency projects, use of renewables in our operations and high-quality offsets. Santos will also seek to develop low-carbon fuels as customer demand evolves.
For 70 years, Santos has been working in partnership with local communities, providing jobs and business opportunities, safely developing natural gas resources and from there powering industries and households. Santos seeks to deliver long-term value to shareholders through our diverse portfolio of high-quality, long-life, low-cost oil and gas assets, carbon storage resources and infrastructure.
The Santos portfolio is value accretive and resilient across a range of decarbonisation scenarios. Santos has a climate transition action plan that will continue to evolve for the global energy evolution.Santos has a regional operating model with a strong local focus. The Company’s operating structure comprises three regional business units focused on enabling and executing corporate strategy. Two divisions – Santos Energy Solutions and Santos Upstream Gas and Liquids – are accountable for global portfolio management and strategy.
About the role
This is an exciting time to join Santos and lead the Payroll & Employee Records Team. The People & Culture function has an ambitious agenda which includes the optimisation of our HRIS Systems and processes, delivering a new shared Services capability to the business and turning our efforts to deliver a customer focussed, market leading employee experience.
This role is key in leading and developing a team as we continue our journey to optimise payroll and related processes and to support the business as it transforms and grows. You will be a passionate, pragmatic leader who role models excellence, has the capability to engage with business stakeholders and thrives in a fast paced, complex environment.
The role is Adelaide based and interstate relocation support will be provided to the successful candidate if required.
As the leader of this team, you will be responsible for
- Delivering timely, efficient and accurate payroll for our Australian employees (field and office based) and expatriates
- Leading and developing a Payroll and People Administration team
- Partnering with People Business Partners, and the broader business to support delivery of the People & Culture strategy
- Working with internal and external audit to ensure compliance with business processes, employment contracts, workplace agreements, relevant tax law and legislative requirements.
- Delivering sound processes and practice for managing system and process interfaces with external providers including banking, superannuation and salary sacrifice arrangements.
- Driving a change agenda to optimise payroll and Employee Records processes through innovation and automation
- Development and implementation of service metrics, trend analysis
- Management of key payroll vendors
About you
We are looking for a capable and driven individual with significant payroll expertise and a track record of managing a team, who is committed to upskilling and developing your people.
We need a leader with the energy to deal with our business-as-usual activities, as well as identify, review and implement changes to those that will assist us to continue to improve how we operate and support the business and the function.
You will possess:
- Outstanding stakeholder skills coupled with a collaborative approach
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Previous experience in identifying and delivering change programs associated with business improvements
- Cultural competence
- Perseverance and resilience with a solutions orientation
- Best practice mindset, with the capability and desire to drive continuous improvement
Ideally you will have experience in SuccessFactors or SAP, or an integrated HRIS system and have worked in a complex commercial organisation. Strong reporting capability and analytical skills to assist in making informed, data lead decisions are critical.
If you are looking to join an organisation that is future focussed, offers growth and development opportunities and challenges we’d love to hear from you. Please apply via our online application system by COB Friday, 2nd February 2024.
A requirement of this role is that you will need to have in place the legal work rights for Australia to apply. (Remove if advertised position is outside of Australia).
Potential Scams
There are a number of fake adverts that are impersonating Santos Limited, in these instances you will receive an e-mail from a generic e-mail address. We do not make offers without interviews or due diligence taking place. You will know if an advert is genuine if you are directed to the Santos company careers page to apply which is https://recruitment.santos.com/
